The Atlantic’s Brush with Scientology
In an age in which messaging has quietly replaced information as the backbone of a corporate media cartel the opportunities for perverting public awareness could just be limitless. Take the…
January 2013
A tiny response to growing elder needs
The Ontario government’s 26 page Action Plan for Seniors came out yesterday. There’s not much to it. About half of the report simply rehashes what is already in place. To…
Michaëlle Jean Makes Compelling Case for Continued Support of Haiti
In this interview, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, former Canadian Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, gives thoughtful, illuminating and thought-provoking responses with the CBC's Wendy Mesley. Recently, the rebuilding work in…
Michaëlle Jean Makes Compelling Case for Continued Support of Haiti
In this interview, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, former Canadian Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, gives thoughtful, illuminating and thought-provoking responses with the CBC’s Wendy Mesley. Recently, the rebuilding work in…
Michaëlle Jean Makes Compelling Case for Continued Support of Haiti
In this interview, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, former Canadian Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, gives thoughtful, illuminating and thought-provoking responses with the CBC's Wendy Mesley.Recently, the rebuilding work in Haiti…
Michaëlle Jean Makes Compelling Case for Continued Support of Haiti
In this interview, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, former Canadian Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, gives thoughtful, illuminating and thought-provoking responses with the CBC’s Wendy Mesley. Recently, the rebuilding work in…
A Warning Straight from the Horse’s Mouth. We’re In For a High-Carbon Fossil Fuel Future
If you were counting on “peak oil” to curb our fossil fuel addiction, forget it. BP CEO Bob Dudley says the peak oil theory is “increasingly groundless.” It’s not that…
Aaron Swartz, Open Access Information, and Sustainability
The death of Aaron Swartz, internet innovator and open data activist, has sent waves through political, hi-tech, and academic communities. Swartz – whose many accomplishments included writing the code that…
Aaron Swartz, Open Access Information, and Sustainability
The death of Aaron Swartz, internet innovator and open data activist, has sent waves through political, hi-tech, and academic communities. Swartz - whose many accomplishments included writing the code that…
Aaron Swartz, Open Access Information, and Sustainability
The death of Aaron Swartz, internet innovator and open data activist, has sent waves through political, hi-tech, and academic communities. Swartz – whose many accomplishments included writing the code that…
#IdleNoMore and the future of Canada
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Idle No More raises questions about both the past and future of Canada itself. It goes to the reality that we are a nation with a…
America’s Eastern Seaboard Now a Sitting Duck
The outgoing director of the U.S. Geological Survey says Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that cities along America’s eastern seaboard are now sitting ducks. Marcia McNutt, who last week announced her resignation…
It’s Hard to See Any Other Way Forward
We are going to have to accept substantially higher costs for liquid-carbon fuel. There are some uses, such as aviation, that just don’t suit alternative energy options, at least not…
How the South Kept Slavery Alive for Generations After the Civil War
Slavery, we were taught, was ended in America by Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Southern blacks continued to suffer persecution of almost any sort for decades afterwards but at…
More Idle No More
Canadians are hardly living up to their reputation for complacency. Coming hard on the heels of the ‘maple spring’ in Québec and the earlier Occupy movements across the country, and…
The government’s broken promise of a digital strategy for Canada
Every time you open your high-priced telecom bills, think about how the government still doesn’t have a plan for an affordable, accessible digital future. Help shape that future, and tell…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Bill Curry reports on what looks like a thoroughly warped view of the role of the Minister of Justice and Parliament in assessing…
I Hate the Media
This is brilliant. Take the statements of two individuals who haven’t talked together about anything, string it all up, and claim that they’ve “left the door open” to something. Like…
Musician’s Death Raises Reflection on Music Education Here and in the Former USSR
Yuli Turovsky, a Russian-born cellist, who adopted Montreal as his home, has died at 73. He was one of the generation of classical musicians who left the Soviet Union as…